Remembering The Boyle Heights Sears: A Tribute To An Eastside Icon
Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe The Sears department store in Boyle Heights is gone. The Eastside landmark, with its familiar tower visible for miles around, closed its doors for good last month, after being open for nearly 100 years. The front door of the now-closed Boyle Heights Sears store. (Leslie Berestein Rojas LAist) At one time, the massive, 2-million-square-foot retail complex at Olympic Boulevard and Soto Street was one of several large Sears distribution centers located around the country. It first opened its doors in 1927. For the generations...
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